Nope not just denim. Often really crap material in such colours as pale yellow, light blue, soft pink, aqua etc. Any pastel colour will do.

BTW I didn't mean to suggest for a second that Americans had taste in clothes, taste of any kind. Just that there are times when ya know just some colour would be nice. I know black goes with everything but the idea is that you might have something other than black with black. And no charcoal doesn't count.

Oh and while I love the spell checker is there a way to make it stop suggesting that colour is spelt incorrectly?

Weird, I never took it to mean what you've all described it as. I always figured it meant "the all-players average" not their individual ones. By which I mean if Dan Cater only scores 3 points instead of his average of 20 (a figure I really must look up one day) then he's down to being an "average" player rather than the world's best first-five.

To use two non-number-related examples: 1) if a halfback throws a hospital pass to a first-five, it gets described as "average", when, in fact, such passes are poor, bad, etc, etc. If it was an "average" pass, it would be a regulation, good, easy to catch pass.

2) if a fullback makes a clearing kick and the ball slices off the side of his boot and bearly makes any ground, it gets described as an "average" kick, when, again, it is poor, bad, dreadful, etc. If it was an "average" kick it would be kicked well and make a bit of ground.

To use two non-number-related examples: 1) if a halfback throws a hospital pass to a first-five, it gets described as "average", when, in fact, such passes are poor, bad, etc, etc. If it was an "average" pass, it would be a regulation, good, easy to catch pass.

But to be fair, the commentator is damning with faint praise. An "average" player wouldn't be in the team, as these guys are supposed to be the best in town/province/region/nation/world at what they do. To aspire to be as good as Dan the Man, but be assessed as being only good enough to be average, is quite the put down.

My fave euphemism for poor is from cricket, when a slog is described as "agricultural". No idea where it came from or what it is supposed to mean.

Hate when footbvall commentators refer to a player "pressurizing" the goal keeper, that really winds me up, and anybody who feels "obligated" to do something, when, they are surely "obliged"?